I love him. I watch Ancient Aliens from time to time - particularly when I am at my parents house because the History Channel is the only thing that my dad and I can agree to watch - other than BBC America when reruns of STNG come on. He is a source of comic relief.

I love to do a comparison of him in early episodes and later episodes. In the early ones, he is your typical pale-faced-pseudo-science-geek professor, and in the later ones he adds a fake-bake/spray-on tan complexion. Must be for da ladies...

As for the hair, I am guessing it was once just an expression of being too lazy care once he got out of bed, now I am sure he uses hair-care products to make it that way.

Around 2900 BCE there was a flood of the Euphrates (surprising the Epic of Giglamesh and Noah's Ark and all the other flood myths happened near the Euphrates) there was a 6 day storm that caused the river to flood more than it already does (the river floods every spring) and killed a lot of people (http://www.flood-myth.com/) There was a local Sumerian king named Ziusudra who commandeered a local barge and rode the flood down into the Persian Gulf and landed on a hill top. He was so thankful to be on solid ground that he gave thanks to his God.